This was a project I recently worked on which was a stage production of PETER PAN. I had about 40 or so actors to do makeup for on this production. Of couse, I taught all of the straight makeup work to the actors which included 11 Indians, about 9 Pirates and The Lost Boys (easy - base and dirty) and they all did their own makeups for the production as I spent most all of my time working on the one character for which I was doing prosthetics - that being Captain Hook. For this project I used Michael Davy's FOAMED GELATIN kits to create the appliances. Since I knew I was going to have to do at least 5 performance and no less than two or three tests before the show opened, I decided to create the molds using 3 noses and 3 chins (which were the pieces I used). The reason I did this was because I thought it would be easier to make 3 appliances at once. Had I decided to use foam latex, there would have been far too much waste of each batch unless I did a quantity of seperate molds for the noses and chins. This way I had 3 noses and 3 chins on ONE mold block. Made life really easy as I could do 3 at once and as quickly as you can create these gelatin appliances (about an hour) they'd be ready to go.

I really like using the gelatin appliances and I thought it might be a problem with the actor sweating, the hot lights and the movement of the mouth (THIS version of Pan is a musical). But I used Michael Davy's Sweat Stop and Premiere Product's Top Guard to help keep the pieces on and free from deterioration. It worked for the most part. Fortunately, I only had to do a little touch up between acts to repair what might have worked loose or what have you, but overall it worked great. I really can't recommend this product enough. If you haven't tried it, you really must. It works very well, it's really light weight, and it holds up nicely to all kinds of conditions with proper precautions and maintenance. But it also looks pretty good too. Thankfully, doing stage work makes it a little easier to "get away with" things you might not be able to get away with in film close ups, but preparation for film can be what saves this if used. As always, with theater, I had about an hour to get this all applied - too short. But that's the norm anyway. I used heavy eyebrows (which almost couldn't be seen for the wig) and a hand made moustache to compliment the look of the character from a more "cartoonish" look - which is what I was trying to achieve. Just a few pictures of this project that took up a lot of my time during the month of June. Comments always welcome.